Word: hoaxing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Five Chicago chemists disturbed the case with cries of "Hoax!" But the next night 17 families on one block reported that they had been gassed. Victims continued to say the mysterious substance made them vomit and sometimes affected the use of arms & legs...
Australians were chuckling last week over a literary hoax as fantastic as a duckbilled platypus. Editor Max Harris, of Adelaide's long-haired little review, Angry Penguins, had introduced the work of a new poet named Ern Malley with a 30-page rhapsody explaining, with deadly and Dadaistic earnestness, why Malley was "one of the two giants of contemporary Australian poetry...
...some real lawyer trouble to worry about. His new book, Yankee Lawyer: The Autobiography of Ephraim Tutt, had caused considerable pain to the person of Lewis R. Linet. Said Philadelphia Lawyer Linet, suing for $3.50 worth of fraudulence: "I bought the book thinking it was nonfiction. [It] is a hoax upon the plaintiff and the reading public...
...North Dakota's' Wild Plum School (TIME, April 24) proved last week to be in sound accord with the scientific principle of increasing entropy (i.e., that the odds are trillions of trillions to one against lumps of coal spontaneously making little leaps). It was all a hoax, compounded of the pupils' legerdemain and the teacher's myopia...
...like A. H. Patterson's letter with his slate for the national elections, and I like your solemn publication of it without comment and I shall enjoy seeing the reaction. I don't suppose that more than one reader in five will recognize it as a hoax...